Lavender patterned Isabel duckwing barred - lavender brown cuckoo barred - project and genetic dis

[campingshaws]

Phew! I as so afraid it would sound offending. I really love them and CANNOT. WAIT. to put them with the flock.

 

[ChicKat]

Phew! I as so afraid it would sound offending.

I really love them and CANNOT. WAIT. to put them with the flock.

I know a woman back East who sells/sold a lot of chickens and she positively won't let buyers on her property. The closest she will let them get is the very end of her driveway. --

It is so difficult to really be biosecure...because it isn't in our natures and luckily our chickens are pretty 'tough' and can overcome our lapses.....

There is a concern though about avian influenza (AI). I think that Tennessee had an outbreak and the Ohio Poultry shows won't allow any Tennessee birds. most of the Texas shows won't allow out-of-state birds (pretty easy because TX is so large.) When I see wild birds in my pens I cringe.

I guess we all need to help each other and remind each other to be vigilant. Can you imagine if the state came to one's property with an order to destroy the flock because the local area had some disease that was highly contageous. That would be heart breaking to say the least.

No, I'm glad that you brought it up. I've thought about putting a big fence around my chicken area with a big sign 'bioHazard- authorized personnell only'.

 

[campingshaws]

Phew! I as so afraid it would sound offending. I really love them and CANNOT. WAIT. to put them with the flock.

I know a woman back East who sells/sold a lot of chickens and she positively won't let buyers on her property.  The closest she will let them get is the very end of her driveway.  -- 

It is so difficult to really be biosecure...because it isn't in our natures and luckily our chickens are pretty 'tough' and can overcome our lapses.....  

There is a concern though about avian influenza (AI).   I think that Tennessee had an outbreak and the Ohio Poultry shows won't allow any Tennessee birds.  most of the Texas shows won't allow out-of-state birds (pretty easy because TX is so large.)  When I see wild birds in my pens I cringe.    

I guess we all need to help each other and remind each other to be vigilant.  Can you imagine if the state came to one's property with an order to destroy the flock because the local area had some disease that was highly contageous.  That would be heart breaking to say the least. 

No, I'm glad that you brought it up.  I've thought about putting a big fence around my chicken area with a big sign 'bioHazard- authorized personnell only'.  

I'm of two minds, extremely conflicted. First, biosecurity is of utmost importance. Second, I have an open "petting farm" that I use for education in the summer time. The flocks are separated by a 6ft privacy fence, and the honas are in a pen within that fence. I've thought about getting the disposable booties for visitors, or having spray for their shoes.

Ultimately I'd rather have the education flock than be bio secure, if I really had to choose.

 

[ChicKat]

Hopefully you will never have to choose.

Chickens do need to be not overly protected too IMO -- and develop their resistance. -- Still get nervous when a flock of wild birds lands too near their pens -- I look at them as little migrating disease factories.

However, there is that story about the 'boy in the bubble' that had zero immunity. -- So in the end, just try to keep them healthy and stress free -- and hope that they can withstand anything that life and mother-nature throws at them.

 

[ChicKat]

I think it's kind of funny. If I want a specific chicken color, I don't care what color egg it lays. And when I want a specific egg color, I don't care what color chicken it comes from!

Gotta love genetics. I got caught up in breeding budgies 8 years ago because I loved learning about their genetic mutations. I've had a great time mixing and matching them like an artist. (You have to understand the genes to be able to do this.) But the budgie colors are all on the same basic bird. Now that I am interested in chickens, it's a lot more complex because you have skin color, egg color, comb, body shape, all the things that differentiate breeds according to their standards. And for the numbers you need, they require a LOT more housing than budgies!

I'm really impressed by your project, and enjoy following the steps along your way. Not to mention I am learning a lot of chicken genetics which is helping me make more sense if it all. Keep up the good work, I like seeing your small steps of success!

That really makes sense. It doesn't really matter to me what the egg color will be in the end. The plumage color is the goal. (good egg productivity is kind of a 'given' too). Can you imagine the "standard" - egg color: blue, or green, or white, or tinted -- Maybe that isn't soooo far fetched. Cream Legbars started out with 'blue' and then it was expanded to 'blue or green' and then it became 'blue, green or olive' - so hey -- why not - any color of the chicken-egg rainbow!!.

Once I had pet - back in those days called a parakeet -- but that is the same as budgie isn't it?

It looked a little like the one on the lower left there -- but had a normal long tail -- and I thought it was the most beautiful bird in the world. Sadly it didn't live very long. -- I bet that breeding was VERY interesting -- but do you need flight cages etc. If you have any pictures -- you should post some -- I'd be interested to see what things you were dealing with. If the barring on this project ends up to be as distinct as the bird on the lower left -- I think I will be very pleased....

 

[campingshaws]

Egg shell genetics is something I have a firm grip of. MUCH easier.

 

[campingshaws]

Lockdown! Several are internally pipped already. e

 

[ChicKat]

Lockdown! Several are internally pipped already.

can't wait to see how it goes.

 

[ChicKat]

Egg shell genetics is something I have a firm grip of. MUCH easier.

good -- You are in charge of keeping it accurate! (once I either find or invent a good diagram).

 

[campingshaws]

Going to bed with one chick and three pip. The chick is from amethyst or opal, laid here. Not lavender, but that's about all I can see. Oh, and a GIANT comb.